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Hosted by Karl Sorochinski · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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Blues Progressions, the podcast that delves deep into the heart and soul of one of the most influential genres in music history: the blues. I’m your host, Karl Sorochinski and together, we’ll embark on a rhythmic journey through time.So, whether you’re a seasoned blues aficionado or a curious listener, join us on Blues Progressions. Let’s groove, reflect, and celebrate the heartbeat of American music. 🎶🔵
Karl Sorochinski hosts Blues Progressions, a music show with 19 episodes published.
The loudest, most virtuosic chapter. The power trio as an invention (Cream) that forces the guitar into godhood; the extended live jam traced straight back to call-and-response; "Crossroads" as a Robert Johnson song turn
The wilderness and the morning after. How disco, punk, new wave, and hair metal pushed blues rock to the margins (Muddy Waters died in '83; the industry called the blues a museum piece) — and how it survived underground
The hinge of the series — the blues comes home to America, to Texas. The Lone Star blues bloodline (T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday," Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King); ZZ Top as a ferocious blues-rock power trio hiding in
Episode 4 is the legacy episode — the beautiful parts and the complicated parts both. How "classic rock" radio (AOR → tested song libraries c.1980) froze a handful of songs and shrank the genre to a postcard. The "Free B
The fuse from Episode 1 catches. How a generation of British kids fell for American blues records and handed the music back louder: Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated as the hub; the underground club scene (the Marquee,
The opener of a brand-new six-part series — with a warm welcome back to the Southern Rock (Southbound) crowd and an open door for newcomers. We define blues rock (the blues plus rock volume, drums, and attitude), then la
Fresh on the heels of my series on Southern Rock, I am launching the next series on Blues Rock starting July 17!
A band like Blackberry Smoke or the Marcus King Band walks out to a sold-out room tonight — and you can’t quite name what it is. Southern Rock? Blues-rock? Country? Americana? All of it? The finale brings the whole story
1980: Capricorn Records goes bankrupt and the press writes the obituary — Southern Rock is dead. They got it completely wrong. It didn’t die; it went underground, and the faithful kept the fire lit in the small rooms. Th
The same five Southern Rock songs play on every classic rock station, forever — but somebody chose them, and somebody froze this music in place. What got frozen along with it — the flags, the myths, the arguments — is th
Everybody knows “Free Bird” — it’s a punchline now, the thing people yell as a joke. But that song, and a dozen like it, came out of one white-hot five-year explosion of Southern music. This is the peak: Skynyrd, Marshal
A grieving manager who’d just buried Otis Redding bets a whole record label on a band with two lead guitarists and two drummers. The town is Macon. The label is Capricorn. This is the room where Southern Rock got its nam
Welcome back! After a long absence, I would like to welcome you back to Blues Progressions. With the help of AI, I am now able to keep up with work and my side projects. This is the first of a six parts series of the Sub
The Blues are the roots of a tall musical tree. One of those branches is Jazz. In this episode we take a short journey through the influence of the Blues on the creation and evolution of Jazz.
In this episode, we again explore the Great Migration as we look at how the Blues traveled from the Deep South to the West Coast. We also look at how the genre changed and took on a region flavor along the way.
An exploration of the youth movement of the Blues. We will discuss the number of Blues artists that were discovered as kids and often mentored by the previous generation(s). Lookin forward we see the Circle has been unbr
Welcome to Season 2! In this episode we talk about Blues Societies and thier role in keeping the Blues relevent
Season 2 is coming soon! We will be concentrating on the Blues Community. We're are looking for artists, blues societies, broadcasters, venues, historians, fans, retailers, educators and anyone wishing to promote nor sha
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Blues Progressions is hosted by Karl Sorochinski. The show is categorised under music (history) and has published 19 episodes.
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